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title: "Oldest fish in the world"  
description: "A short explanation of the Greenland shark and it's amazing facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-09-25  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2656/oldest-fish-in-the-world  
category: "animals"  
tags: ["Greenland shark", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Oldest fish in the world

![Oldest fish in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a8c1459b-31ba-4df8-a561-95f0f397e139/images/e2d24dd3-33be-49fa-ba72-d63f1a2a9c95.jpeg) ![Oldest fish in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a8c1459b-31ba-4df8-a561-95f0f397e139/images/9c2321bd-d53c-4238-950d-375cf5c4f6d4.jpeg) The Greenland shark is the oldest fish in the world, with a 392-year-old female specimen being the oldest ever discovered. ![Oldest fish in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a8c1459b-31ba-4df8-a561-95f0f397e139/images/2676ee34-f811-43cd-8b58-ce49c8276dd6.jpeg) Greenland sharks are slow-growing and long-lived fish, with some scientists suggesting they can live for more than 500 years. ![Oldest fish in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a8c1459b-31ba-4df8-a561-95f0f397e139/images/a3069318-f572-43b9-b3b3-4441794fd912.jpeg) They live in the cold waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. ![Oldest fish in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a8c1459b-31ba-4df8-a561-95f0f397e139/images/0990f9ba-ea99-41ef-a195-de8e1a4e7c64.jpeg) They also have an extremely powerful immune system, which helps them fight sickness. ![Oldest fish in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a8c1459b-31ba-4df8-a561-95f0f397e139/images/9ea6786f-ef99-4595-9d6a-c56fdd6a9af7.jpeg) Scientists are unsure why Greenland sharks live so long, but they suspect that their slow metabolism and cold-water habitat play a factor.

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